Bloomberg names Nashville one of nation’s ‘boomtowns’

It appears Nashville has landed on yet another national list, this time a ranking of the country’s fastest-growing cities compiled by Bloomberg Rankings.

Using U.S. Census data, Bloomberg ranked metropolitan areas with more than 1 million people based on population change and growth in gross domestic product.

The Nashville metro area was ranked eighth. The region’s population grew by 6.3 percent from 2007 to 2011, from 1,521,437 to 1,617,142, and experienced compounded annual GDP growth of 1.37 percent during the period.

Austin, which saw its population grow by 11.6 percent from 2007 to 2011, topped the list.

Another region city officials like to compare Nashville to, Raleigh, N.C., came in third.